GRANDMOTHER Linda Pearson has booked a date with Elvis to help raise funds for the neo-natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Mrs Pearson, 61, wants to say thank you to the nurses and doctors who brought her 14-month-old granddaughter Hadiyah safely into the world six weeks early during an emergency caesarean and battled to save her twin Amanah, who sadly died 11 hours later, after their mother's placenta ruptured.

"If the girls had been identical twins they both would have died but because they weren't identical they each had their own placenta," said Mrs Pearson.

"They gave us one and did their best for the other one. I just want to say thank you."

To raise funds for the neo-natal, she has taken up an Elvis look-and-sound-a-like's offer of help and he will be on stage at Low Moor Working Men's Club, off Huddersfield, Road on Friday, June 26.

Family friend Gordon Davis has been a winner of European Elvis Masters Championship and won the Images of The King contest in Memphis in 2012.

"After we lost Amanah, Gordon was the first person to ring me and asked if there was anything he could do to help us and I said 'yes you can do what you do best'.

"But it was too soon to ask him to do one of his tribute shows at that point and then he was away on tour a lot but finally we are all set for June.

"It's going to be a fantastic night - Gordon's an international tribute act, he's performed all over the world and now he's coming to Low Moor. We hope people will snap up the tickets!"

Mrs Pearson added: "It was a terrible time but the care at the neo-natal department was wonderful. I was there for quite a while and I was able to hold Amanah.

"Her twin is doing very well, being fussed over by her family including her four other siblings."

The money raised will go towards buying items on the neo-natal's unit's shopping list - the revamped £2 million neonatal unit officially opened earlier this year with almost £90,000 of donated equipment to help save more tiny lives.

Bradford Hospitals Charity has been raising funds for the refurbished unit since the project started more than two years ago and much of the donations have come from parents and families who have experienced the unit at first hand.

The shopping list supplied by the charity included computers, recliner chairs for mums nursing their babies skin-to-skin, tables, lockers, screens, curtains, bedroom furniture, wireless clocks, TV and DVD and nine special workstations which mean parents, doctors and babies can all stay together.

Tickets for The Elvis Night cost £6 and available by ringing Mrs Pearson on 07790 317650 or calling into her shop at Ivy House Bridal at 161 Rooley Lane, Bradford.